INDUMIL (a

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words ''Industria'' ''Militar'', Military Industry) is a

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History

Indumil was originally known as National Workshop of Mechanic Crafts (). It was founded in 1908 as a dependency of the Ministry of War. The institution was renamed Indumil in 1954 as an autonomous organisation. In 1954 Indumil's main facilities were opened. Its first factory, named General José María Córdova, was intended to produce small arms and ammunition. This facility is located in

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, Cundinamarca. In 1955 a second facility was set up under the name of Santa Bárbara. This second unit makes heavy munitions and artillery equipment for Colombian military forces. In 1964 an explosives factory under the name Antonio Ricaurte was inaugurated. In 1968 this facility became an integral part of Indumil. In 1975, documentation from Heckler & Koch mentioned that the company was allowed to produce the G3, MP5 and the HK21 under license. During the 1980s and 1990s the Colombian government started a commercial relationship with

Israeli Military Industries IMI Systems, previously Israel Military Industries, also referred to as Ta'as (), was an Israeli weapons manufacturer. The company manufactured weapons, munitions and military technology mainly for the Israeli security forces (especially Israel' ...

. Through a staged process Indumil developed licensed production of

IMI Galil The IMI Galil () is a family of Israeli-made automatic rifles chambered for the 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges. Originally designed by Yisrael Galili (inventor), Yisrael Galili and Yakov Lior in the late 1960s, the Galil was fir ...

rifles for the use of the

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. In 2000 Indumil was granted a certification

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/94. During the new millennium Indumil received a number of awards as a defense industry.

Products

List of products:

Rifles

Galil The IMI Galil () is a family of Israeli-made automatic rifles chambered for the 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges. Originally designed by Yisrael Galili and Yakov Lior in the late 1960s, the Galil was first produced by the state-o ...

Galil ACE The IWI Galil ACE, also marketed as the IWI ACE is a series of assault rifles and battle rifles developed and manufactured by Israel Weapon Industries (IWI), produced in 5.56×45mm NATO, 7.62×39mm and 7.62×51mm NATO calibres. Design deta ...

Galil Córdova The Galil Córdova is an assault rifle designed and developed by Colombian company INDUMIL, Indumil, based on the IMI Galil, Galil AR. It is the main assault rifle of the Colombian Armed Forces and National Police. The Córdova is named after ...

Handguns

Walther P22 The Walther P22 is a semi-automatic pistol chambered for .22 Long Rifle (5.59 mm Caliber) rimfire ammunition. Manufactured by Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen, it was introduced in 2002 and has become very popular among shooting sports. It is dist ...

* Jericho PSL, PL and FBL * Córdova *Llama Revolver models Cassidy, Scorpion and Martial

Shotguns

Mossberg Maverick The Mossberg Maverick 88 is a pump action shotgun manufactured for O.F. Mossberg & Sons. The Maverick 88 is virtually identical to the Mossberg 500. Factory Maverick 88s feature a black, synthetic only stock and forearm, cylinder bore (although ...

Hatsan Arms shotgun

Ammunition

5.56×45mm NATO The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, commonly pronounced "five-five-six") is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal. It consists of the SS109, ...

SS109 *

7.62×51mm NATO The 7.62×51mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 7.62 NATO) is a rimless, straight walled, bottlenecked, centerfire rifle cartridge. It is a standard for small arms among NATO countries. First developed in the 1950s, the cartridge had first be ...

M80 * .38 Special * .32 Long Colt * 9×19mm * 7.65×21mm * 12 gauge * 16 gauge *

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The 5.56×45mm and 7.62×51mm are also produced in all their variations such as tracer and blank cartridges.

Explosives

* M26 grenade H.E * 40mm H.E - AP grenade. *IM 60 mm H.E.

mortar shell A mortar today is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded cannon, consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod m ...

. *IM 81 mm H.E. mortar shell. *IM 120 mm H.E. mortar shell. *IM 125 lb PG

aerial bomb An aerial bomb is a type of Explosive weapon, explosive or Incendiary device, incendiary weapon intended to travel through the Atmosphere of Earth, air on a predictable trajectory. Engineers usually develop such bombs to be dropped from an aircra ...

. *IM 250 lb PG aerial bomb. *IM 500 lb PG aerial bomb. *50g - 11 kg

Satchel charge A satchel charge is a demolition device, primarily intended for combat, whose primary components are a charge of dynamite or a more potent explosive such as C-4 plastic explosive, a carrying device functionally similar to a satchel or messeng ...

All mortar shells, grenades and aerial bombs are also produced in variations made for training.

Miscellaneous

* MGL Grenade Launcher * IMC-40 grenade launcher Indumil's flagship small firearm is the Llama revolver. It is a 6 to 10 shot capacity, caliber .38 Special revolver, which is produced mainly at the General José María Córdova factory. Indumil is one of two companies that produce the

rifles outside

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, the other being Denel of South Africa. After two decades of stage by stage manufacturing cycle, the company now fully produces all the necessary parts of the

rifle. The company produces the ARM (assault rifle and machine gun).Ammunition identification and tracing: Indumil of Colombia , ComunidadeSegura.org
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